Street's Disciple vs. Tango in the Night

After that last Album Deathmatch I did, I got a lot of people trying to suggest possible future deathmatches, which was cool, but I think this'll be more interesting if we stick to some sort of theme. Otherwise, we're just comparing two random albums that don't have anything to do with one another, which would just be asinine.

When Fleetwood Mac dropped Rumours back in 1977, they were on top of the world. They were sniffing blow as fast as they could get it from their dealer, Milt. Lindsey Buckingham was choking back the urge daily to put a shoe on Stevie Nicks, who, if I'm not mistaken, was fucking the old dude. Either way, let's just say that old motherfucker was getting around.

Fast forward 10 years later to 1987 and all that coke sniffing was obviously starting to catch up. Milt got locked up and ended up discovering Jesus. The surprisingly virile old dude was off somehwere banging hookers left and right, and Lindsey Buckingham ended up chasing Stevie Nicks down the street and throwing her into a car, which, if I'm not mistaken, happened shortly after this album was released.

Nas' story is pretty well known at this point. In 1994, he came out with Illmatic, which was pretty good if not the hip-hop bible people want it to be. Then he started working with the Trackmasters and putting out shitty albums and Jay-Z fucked his wife and they had their little thing and so on and so forth. Last year, he married the psycho hose beast and closeted lesbian Kelis and wrote a bunch of songs about it.

Number of Great Songs
This is kind of a trick question, seeing as that Street's Disciple has no great songs on it. Tango in the Night, on the other hand, has no less than 6 songs that rank among the absolute best songs released in the 1980s, let alone the other 6 songs which are pretty solid as well.

Number of Bullshit Songs
Because I'm not some kind of sadist, I didn't bother to go and count the number of bullshit songs on Street's Disciple, but suffice to say there are quite a few of them. "Isn't It Midnight," from the second side of Tango, sounds like it could be from the soundtrack to Top Gun.

Production
Considering that Nas could've gotten beats from pretty much anybody he wanted, the fact that he went got all of those teh ghey ass Salaam Remi beats is just inexcusable. Meanwhile, the production on Tango could very well be the classiest use of synthesizers in the history of music.

Spousal Abuse
One of the highlights of any good Fleetwood Mac is the tangible sense of tension between the members the group, which ultimately led to the incident recounted above. Street's Disciple is the sound of a man who will never know such an incident.

Album Covers
The cover to Street's Disciple is the gayest thing I've ever seen in my life. That dude pouring him a glass of champagne is obviously some kind of metaphor for gay sex. The cover to Tango in the Night, on the other hand, is the definition of class.

Conclusion: Tango in the Night > Street's Disciple